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Gov. Spitzer in Room 871, with the mini-bar

That clever headline on a Village Voice blog page item caught my eye. Here's the posting by Sarah DiGregorio that it introduced:

"According to the federal affidavit, former Governor Spitzer agreed to pay for any mini-bar charges during his tryst with Kristen at the Mayflower Hotel. Very generous of him! You know how outrageous those prices can be!

But what might Kristen have chosen from the Mayflower's mini-bar? Turns out, there was plenty to choose from for a three diamond kind of girl: Gray Goose, Bombay Gin, Absolut Vodka, Chivas Regal, Johnny Walker Black, plus an assortment of soda, candy bars, cookies and peanuts.

How many of those little bottles would it take before Spitzer started looking pretty good? Some questions we just can't answer."